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> A fire extinguisher large enough for a 500wh battery weighs 12 kilos - most people can barely lift that! Almost everyone can lift that overhead. 90% of men a
by chmod775 4y ago
> A fire extinguisher large enough for a 500wh battery weighs 12 kilos - most people can barely lift that!
Almost everyone can lift that overhead. 90% of men and more than 50% of women can lift a bit more than twice that overhead. It's a common job requirement.
There would have to be something really wrong for an adult to struggle lifting 12kg. That's a large watermelon, and unlike the melon, the fire extinguisher got a handle.
Handheld fire extinguishers top out at that weight - because the vast majority of people will be able to use them and it's better to have two than make them any bigger.
- spyke112 4y agoWhere on earth do you get 12 kg watermelons? Genuine curious, the ones imported here in Denmark I would guess are big if they're around 3 kg.
- Double_a_92 4y agoWarmer countries. E.g. in Italy the common water melons are at least half a meter long.
- colaco 4y agoThe same in Portugal. Ours can be very big.
- Gravityloss 4y agoI guess we can conclude a watermelon is a really bad weight reference unit!
- dotancohen 4y ago$ units You have: 1 watermelon You want: grapes * 907.19 / 0.0011023
- sekh60 4y agoIs there anything "units" can't convert?
- dotancohen 4y ago$ units You have: 1 VIM user You want: Emacs users St4ck 0verflow...
- unwind 4y agoSitting even further north than Denmark, the OP did say that their melons are imported. Although it's possible to grow them in Denmark (especially in a greenhouse) perhaps it's not commercially viable. Regardless, I guess the OP just needs to find a better grocer, local "fruit mongers" up here in frigid Sweden certainly routinely handle watermelons that are way bigger than 3 kg. :)
- blendergeek 4y agoI get them from my garden but I weigh them in pounds. Larger ones can grow in excess of 40 lbs (close to 20 kg). Am from the Southeastern United States.
- jve 4y ago> ...I would guess are big if they're around 3 kg Before making a guess, try to weight them. I have hard time imagining watermelon (watermelon is the green thing unlike yellow melon) with only 3kg :) Your full water kettle already weights 2+kg.
- IaacForHire 4y agoIn Istanbul the watermelons we get from the grocery store are about 4kg, the ones we buy from the road-side watermelon trucks in the summer can be 10-15kg (if their scales aren't rigged).
- aidenn0 4y agoFirst source I found claims 9-11kg[1] 1: https://www.whataboutwatermelon.com/index.php/2018/08/how-heavy-is-a-watermelon/ https://www.whataboutwatermelon.com/index.php/2018/08/how-he...